Back to episode — Episode 1598 Scott Adams - Mass Formation Psychosis, The Great Reset, Manchin and More
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real reason he sold his stock? Public relations? Publicity? Somebody says stock options to make a profit. No. I had to exercise options. Was that it? We, I thought there was some voluntary part of that. Thank you, diversification. Yeah, if you're the richest person in the world but your wealth is entirely in a few different entities, you need to get some of that out of there. You need to get some…
← Previous segment →vents it? Do you know what has prevented us so far from descending into totalitarianism in the United States? Do you know what? Partial credit for whoever is saying the Second Amendment, which is a lot of people on the Locals platform. I was going to say the Constitution. Second Amendment being, you could say that's the foundation of the Constitution in a way. You could make that argument. So I'll take Second Amendment as a correct answer. But I was looking for a Constitution. That we do have a set of checks and balances, however imperfect, that keep totalitarianism at bay.
Now if we packed the Supreme Court, totalitarianism is coming. And you know who knew that? Joe Biden. Even Joe Biden knew you don't pack the Supreme Court because you get rid of your checks and balances and then yeah, then the mass formation psychosis is going to eat you alive. It'll eat you alive as soon as you take that protection away. But the Constitution has for a few hundred years provided us a weird protection against it. It's like a self-correcting system which is what makes it so magic.
And so I do not deny that there is a mass formation psychosis. I simply add to it that it's always here. Maybe a little worse, like adding water to the ocean, but not in a way that makes, doesn't help you understand anything. It doesn't tell you what to do about it. Doesn't predict better. Doesn't do anything. So the cleaner story is the fake news has so messed with us that we're looking for any kind of explanation and that causes psychosis. So look at the fake news. Don't be diverted by a clever but accurate, clever but accurate idea about the mass formation psychosis. It's a diversion but true-ish. There's nothing about it that's untrue.
Let's talk about the Great Reset. How many of you believe that the Great Reset is a clever plot by the elites to gain power and control? How many of you believe that? Yes yes yes. Yep yup yup yes yes yes yes. Well the Great Reset in my opinion is nothing like that. Let me tell you what I think it is.
So it's based on, apparently in June 2020 there was, the Great Reset was the theme of this annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. So the first part that's true is there was, the elites did get together and talk about the Great Reset. So that part everybody agrees is true. That's just a fact. The topics, it was convened by Prince Charles and blah blah blah and other people. And some of the topics were climate change stuff. All right. And so the idea was to use the current pandemic and all the chaos that it creates along with any chaos that comes from climate change itself to say let's rethink everything and see if this is a situation to fix things.
Now is that a conspiracy? If a bunch of people say hey we've got a situation to fix a bunch of things like climate and fairness and things because it's completely over, they're showing you their work. They're doing it in public. Is that a conspiracy? And is what they want power and control? I always reject that argument because again that's like adding water to the ocean. Everybody wants power and control. Everybody. You want it over yourself. Some people want it over other people so that they can have a better life themselves. But we all want power and control. There's no exceptions to that.
So when you say that these Great Reset people are looking for power and control, that's true but it doesn't say anything. It doesn't add anything. Because the Great Reset isn't like one thing. It's just a whole bunch of people doing things in a condition which is rare, which is we can stop and rethink everything. I would say that the pandemic is a Great Reset. We've rethought commuting. We've rethought healthcare. We've rethought pandemic stuff. We've rethought everything. So there is a Great Reset in the sense that you can clear the slate and say all right, if we were going to start today how would you build back better so to speak.
So I don't find anything even slightly alarming about the Great Reset because it's basically just a push for green technology and maybe some more socialism but that's already here. It's just the same stuff we've been looking at. And I don't think the Great Reset gave them any extra capability or power. You know you just saw Manchin kill Build Back Better. So you know it was close. It was close. But it doesn't look like the Great Reset is going to reset too much.
Here's some good news. It was sort of underplayed on CNN's website but I hadn't seen it anywhere else. They said thanks to multiple atmosphe
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ric river events, which sounds very important, atmospheric river events, the average snowpack in California has gone from 18 to 98 in two weeks. We just went from no snowpack. We're going to have another drought because that's a big source of our water comes from that snowpack. And we're having yet again a drought this summer. And looks like we just took a big step toward making that big problem g…
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